A LOST OPPORTUNITY.
‘ ‘ At the moment there seems no sort of doubt that the first need of the country is houses,” writes Dr Alington, headmaster of Eton, in the “Evening Standard”; “without decent housing it is a waste of time to talk of health, education, or wages, for the most elaborate schemes for looking after young people’s physical or intellectual condition must fail if boys or girls have no decent houses to go to, i* and high wages are no real to a decent father of a family it they do not mean that he can give his wife and children a proper home to live in. Surely the function of the church is clear; it should devote itself, in season and out of season, to declaring that it is the duty of every Christian man or woman to secure that the people of this country are decently housed, and that they have no right to any peace of mind until, at least in their own particular district, that resulted is secured. Can anyone doubt that if the church had concentrated on this elementary truth ever since the war the conditions to-day would be very different from what they are? ” a*
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Hokitika Guardian, 2 December 1929, Page 4
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201A LOST OPPORTUNITY. Hokitika Guardian, 2 December 1929, Page 4
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